<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Towards a Model of Life and Cognition"^^ . "What should be the ontology of the world such that life and cognition are possible? In this essay, I undertake to outline an alternative ontological foundation which makes biological and cognitive phenomena possible. The foundation is built by defining a model, which is presented in the form of a description of a hypothetical but a logically possible world with a defined ontological base.\n\nBiology rests today on quite a few not so well connected foundations: molecular biology based on the genetic dogma; evolutionary biology based on neo-Darwinian model; ecology based on systems view; developmental biology by morphogenetic models; connectionist models for neurophysiology and cognitive biology; pervasive teleonomic\nexplanations for the goal-directed behavior across the discipline; etc. Can there be an underlying connecting theme or a model which could make these seemingly disparate domains interconnected? I shall atempt to answer this question.\n\nBy following the semantic view of scientific theories, I tend to believe that the models employed by the present physical sciences are not rich enough to capture biological (and some of the non-biological) systems. A richer theory that could capture biological reality could also capture physical and chemical phenomena as limiting cases, but \nnot vice versa."^^ . "2004-08" . . . . . . . "Nagarjuna"^^ . "G."^^ . "Nagarjuna G."^^ . . . . . . "Towards a Model of Life and Cognition (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . . . . "Life-Cognition.pdf"^^ . . . "Towards a Model of Life and Cognition (Image (PNG))"^^ . . . . . . "preview.png"^^ . . . "Towards a Model of Life and Cognition (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #4109 \n\nTowards a Model of Life and Cognition\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Animal Cognition" . . . "Philosophy of Mind" . . . "Philosophy of Science" . . . "Theoretical Biology" . . . "Metaphysics" . .